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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Optical Mineralogy sillimanite 1






Sillimanite (relatively coarse grained) in plane polarized and cross polarized light, showing distinctive cleavage in end section (equant grain near center of field of view), and typical 1st to 2nd order interference colors in elongate grains. From Winding Stair Gap, NC.

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